Yup you don't need a fast chip to enable 1080p playback with no framedrops. My Galaxy SII is underclocked to 800Mhz and it plays my BR rips at 1080p no problems at all, even outputting over HDMI to the TV. As long as there's a HW decoder built in it's all fine.
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Not sure where windows 8 has come from but either way you can buy 16gb pen drives for £8 and sdcards for a couple of quid more.
Note I have run my home server/media centre off a 8gb pen drive 24/7 since 2007 with zero issues, it will probably do that amount again without issue but I'll upgrade it soon anyway.
Note I have run my home server/media centre off a 8gb pen drive 24/7 since 2007 with zero issues, it will probably do that amount again without issue but I'll upgrade it soon anyway.
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I swear I read something on the forums that said that USB drives wouldn't be bootable.
I guess with linux you boot off sd but have mount points on USB, god knows how win8 will work, but I'd just use an sdcard anyway a 16gb one is like £10.
Not sure what is meant by the question above that but it runs a journaled file system so has its fair share of read writes. My point being that yes it will eventually wear out, but by normal OS use it will take years and years which by that point it would have long been tossed on the scrap heap, as larger/faster/cheaper alternatives become available.
Not sure what is meant by the question above that but it runs a journaled file system so has its fair share of read writes. My point being that yes it will eventually wear out, but by normal OS use it will take years and years which by that point it would have long been tossed on the scrap heap, as larger/faster/cheaper alternatives become available.
I was going under the impression that some were on about using it as such as a full time computer with browser caches, java caches, Flash caches, temp data etc, all that stuff can change in heavy volumes daily from the average user!
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Being very interested in computers I really enjoy using one but who love to know how they work underneath windows or Linux. Im too scared to mess around with my proper gaming rig would you suggest I buy one of these to play around with to get to grips with programming and a better understanding in how a computer works?
Could it run Windows XP?
I might get one and replace my parents rig with it that has a 4GHz dual core and 9800GTX, that can go on ebay
The 256MB one would I reckon, not overly well though.
I doubt it would ever run XP as the cpu is ARM and doesn't have the same instruction set.
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No versions of windows are going to be supported.
While these have to boot from SD I'm sure I read somewhere that you can use a custom bootloader to boot from the USB attached storage. Windows 8 may well be hackable...
As others have stated these are not about the hardware, the potential for learning is mind boggling. Yes you can buy cheap computers on the bay etc but that isn't the point. Every Raspberry Pi owner will have the same hardware at their disposal, the same libraries, access to owners forums to share ideas and code
Cannot wait to get my mitts on one
As others have stated these are not about the hardware, the potential for learning is mind boggling. Yes you can buy cheap computers on the bay etc but that isn't the point. Every Raspberry Pi owner will have the same hardware at their disposal, the same libraries, access to owners forums to share ideas and code
Cannot wait to get my mitts on one
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I do approve of this if kids are allowed to tinker again. IT or 'ICT' as they call it nowadays is too dumbed down. Sure, learning how to use MS Office applications like Word and Powerpoint is good for applying for an office/admin job, but I don't consider it to be IT. The IT syllabus in my days included learning what's inside a PC, some high-level programming, database and machine architectures outside of IBM-compatible PCs. Plus we're only talking 1997/8 for me, so is it too hard to go back 14 years?
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I'm sure I have seen videos of a powered USB hub being used on it. As for the wireless dongle, you will be completely at the mercy drivers that have been made for the dongle. I'm sure most of the common ones will be supported very quickly if not from the outset.
When I did IT at school it was nothing but the various chart making abilities of excel and god knows what damage it has done to the country for whole years of students to be utterly turned off IT as its seen as nothing but inputting numbers into excel.
If this somehow can inspire a new generation then I wish it all the best if its availably commercially then I wouldn't be surprised if a large amount of applications are released online akin to android marketplace.
If this somehow can inspire a new generation then I wish it all the best if its availably commercially then I wouldn't be surprised if a large amount of applications are released online akin to android marketplace.
they do engineering and electronics courses at gcse now apparently so there's that if you prefer the hadware side of "IT".
but from speaking to people who've done it it's just what we used to do in physics but with more practical work.
but from speaking to people who've done it it's just what we used to do in physics but with more practical work.
I think if anybody is relying on a school (and teachers current laughable level of knowledge) to get them into this area, then they are dreaming.
People who do well in IT and Electronics will be the ones who play with this stuff at home, and naturally they will also be the ones with a Raspberry Pi on their wish list.
Best idea I ever got from a college lecturer - "take stuff apart"
People who do well in IT and Electronics will be the ones who play with this stuff at home, and naturally they will also be the ones with a Raspberry Pi on their wish list.
Best idea I ever got from a college lecturer - "take stuff apart"